Second Book in the Raft Series by Emma Ellis
Better than the First Book!
The earth under England has dissolved and England is a free floating “raft” of an island. England’s elite blow up the mooring to the mainland and British citizens become isolated from the rest of the world’s climate catastrophe. Too busy with their own issues of famine, disease, and dividing precious resources and power, those closest to the shore are easily deceived by those advantaged enough to live near the center.
But every lie has a price. Dr. Savanah Selbourne’s price for signing off on the lies the Centre tells the Periphery is to keep here son, Ethan, born to her partner, Grace. But six years of misleading the people of the Periphery has its own price. Savanah’s status among her own people is shrinking and her relationship with Grace is beginning to fray.
When Amalyn and Savanah are sent to Europe as spokespersons for the synthetic foods Savanah developed, they discover an entire culture that has been kept secret by the Centre elites—a culture with more freedoms than England. Savanah can see a future for Ethan that doesn’t include subjugation by the wealthy. But how will she convince her much more sensitive wife to live below ground and eat foods that are grown, not synthetically created?
While working on escaping to Europe, Savanah and company stumble upon the Centre’s biggest secret—one that will risk the lives of almost everyone in the Periphery. Can Savanah save her family and redeem herself from selling-out to the elites in the last book? She will have to rediscover her humanity to do so.
Ellis continues the saga of her unique, prickly heroine and her eclectic cadre of friends. This second book of the duology is faster paced with more twists and turns than the first book in the series, and comes to a surprise ending.
(I received an advance copy of this book for review.)
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